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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30748	The office of the good house-wife with necessary directions for the ordering of her family and dairy, and the keeping of all such cattle as to her particular charge the over-sight belongs : also the manner of keeping and governing of silk-wormes and honey-bees, both very delightsome and profitable / by F.B.	F. B.	1672 (1672)	Wing B63; ESTC R22389	45,061	156

cannot go out at that so they may be turned from making of Honey and also when they perceive that they cannot fill up all their waxen Chambers with Honey they may apply themselves to fill them with young Bees They fall into a Consumption and dry all away when they have indured a very great heat or cold and it is evidently derceived for it is often seen that one beareth out of the Hive the body of another that is dead and and some of those that are within a Hive become pensive and sad after the manner of a general mourning which when it happeneth to them they must have meat made of Honey boiled and beaten with Galls or dry Roses Sometimes there is such store of Combs made as that for want of Bees they stand empty whereupon it cometh that they rot and destroy the Honey by their rottenness and the spoil of the Honey causeth the Bees to die for to remedy this you must put two Swarms into one Hive or else cut away the putrified Combs with a very sharp Knife or other well whetted Tool The gathering of Honey for which there is so much labour taken all tbe year is chiefly effected at three several time as shortly after the Spring all the Summer and in the beginning of Autumn but there cannot any prefixed day or certain time be appointed for the same seeing it dependeth upon the finishing of the Combs for if you draw them out before they be throughly wrought the Bees will grow malecontented and cease to work any more by reason of the thirst which they endure The time of gathering Honey is known by the Bees ceasing to make any great noise but turning the same into a soft and low buzzing as also if the holes which are above are stopt with VVax and if the Bees drive out the Drones which are like unto Bees but a greater beast and altogether unprofitable and without taking any pains for they gather no Food but eat up that which others bring in The Hour of taking the Combs is most commonly in the Morning or Evening For it is not good to disquiet or trouble them in the heat of the day The Hives must not be wholly emptied and so all the Fruit taken out but there must be left about a fifth part as well in Spring as in Summer but in Autumn two parts must be left and a third taken for by this means you shall not much discontent them but shall leave behind abundantly behind for them to feed upon The gathering of Honey most commonly used and reasonable is but to take the ripest Combs and those which are best perfected and with all of them unto two thirds If the Hive be but halfe full of Honey then but the halfe of that to be taken and if it be under halfe full then proportionably you must make them come forth with the smoke of Neats-dung or of Galbanum or wild Mallowr and with the Juice of this Herb annoint his face and hands which shall gather the Honey to keep him that he be not stung or which is better let him have a thin hood to compass and go over his face head and neck and Gloves on his hands and by this means he shall see at his pleasure what he goeth about to do and yet be free from the danger of the Bees stinging but notwithstanding that you take from their work of Honey and VVax yet you should not kill them nor drive them far away if it be possible but keep them to draw more profit out of them afterwards and when there is no hope of good of them by by reason of their oldness even then you must not use any ingrateful cruelty towards them as murtherously to massacre them instead of recompence In the Countrey of Tuscany in remembrance of the beautifulness of this poor Creature it is forbidden upon a great penalty to kill Bees so long as possibly by any means they may be kept alive when you are to take out any of their Combs therefore you must smoke them in such sort that they may withdraw themselves into the top or covering of the Hive and not to come forth or else you shall make them come forth the covering of the Hive being taken away and a Sack tied to the mouth of the Hive so smoking the Bees they will betake themselves into the Sack which must be tied and laid upon the ground until such time as the Honey be taken away at leasure After this the Hive must be set to the mouth of the Sack and the covering put upon it again that so the Bees may return and enter 〈◊〉 their house again to begin th● work anew or else to set near unto the Hive you intend to geld another empty Hive which shall be perfumed and hang'd about with sweet smelling Herbs to intice them thereunto The Combs being taken away shall be carried to the place where you intend to make the Honey and stoping the Windows of this place prevent the coming of Bees thereinto for they will busily seek the Treasure that they have lost and therefore to cut off all means of entrance for them into this place you must there raise a smoke which may drive away 〈◊〉 which shall assay to come in You must drein your Honey the same day that you have taken out your Combs although they be warm and somewhat hot and for the doing thereof the Combs must be set one against another in a Willow or Osier basket wrought very clear and fashioned like unto an Hypocras bag After that you have cleansed away from the Combs the Seed of the young brood and all manner of other filth let the Honey run through the basket into a bason then put it into an Earthen Vessel which must for some small time be left open till it hath done boiling and casting forth of its froth this done the pieces and lumps of Combs shall be taken out of the basket and pressed and there will Honey come out of them but not so good as the former which must be put by it self that the pure and that which is indeed very excellent may not be corrupted thereby 〈◊〉 that the Combs are throughly pressed and washed in sweet water they shall be cast into a Copper or Brass Kettle with some water and so set upon a soft fire to melt this Wax thus melted shall be strained letting it run out into water and then being melted again with water you shall make it up into what form you will The good Farmer maketh gain of every thing and I dare boldly say that there are few things found about a Countrey-house which are of greater increase and advantage then Honey Again we see what Traffick the Spaniards make with it who through the barrenness of their Countrey having no other means to inrich themselves do keep a great number of Bees In like manner do the Inhabitants about Narbone who send amongst us great quantities of Honey which we make

thus they will not fail to go into it Another way and which is the best in my opinion is thus When you see that the young Kings shall be come forth with their young Train which within a day or two will all become together at the mouth of the old stock and shew by sufficient signs and tokens that they are desirous of some place of their own and peculiar to themselves then set a Hive ready drest before them and they will go into it and rest contented therewith and abide therein It is to be known when this young Host will come abroad by the noise and humming which they will make in the Hive three days before that they purpose to come abroad as if a Camp of Warlike men would rise up and remove And to know when they make this noise he must lay his Ear at Evening to every Hive that so he may hear the noise and humming when they make any And yet indeed this noise and humming is sometimes a sign and token of some fight or strife raised betwixt them as where there are more Kings then one which must be well prevented otherwise by such civil Wars and deadly fights all the whole Troop and Company will quickly be overthrown and brought to nothing but this intended Combat is quickly taken up with a Bowl of boiled Wine set unto them or else some Honied VVine or other such liquor which by its sweetness is familiar to Bees for these will appease their fury but yet if you perceive that these fights and skirmishes are not thus ended you must make hast to kill the Kings of the Bees which are the cause of such seditions and tumults These poor Creatures are so inraged with love towards their King that for to defend him they willingly cast and expose their own lives into open hazard against all his Enemies which come to assail him besides other incredible obeysance which they continually yield unto him At this time of the Spring it likewise sometimes cometh to pass that by reason of the hardness of the winter past or of some disease or sickness there is great want and scarcity of Bees in old stocks and this must be remedied by putting a new Swarm into that hive killing the young King that so his Subjects may content themselves to live peaceably under the old but if you have not a Swarm then the next way is to put the Troops of two or three such diminished stocks into one bedewing or sprinkling the same before with some sweet Liquor and after to shut them up in the same Hive and set something within it for them to eat until they be well wonted unto it and so to keep them three days closed up giving them a little fresh Air at some small and little holes If Rainy weather continue long that the Bees cannot go out of their Hives to seek pastures and to bring home food unto their young brood you must not fail to help them with some provision of honey untill such time as they shall be able to fly abroad to get their own living and to work their Honey combs off for otherwise you shall quickly make an end of them as it oftentimes comes to pass All the Summer they must gather Honey whereof we will speak hereafter and at the same time every ten days their Hives must be opened and smoked with Oxe-dung and afterwards be cooled by watering the empty parts of the Hive and likewise be made clean and all Grubs taken out of them if any be therein In some fair day about the end of Autumn you must make clean their Hives but see that it be hot and calm weather and all the Winter you must not open nor touch them but keep them close within till the Sun-beams break forth again for their comfort stopping without whatsoever clefts and holes you find with Morter and Neats-dung mixed together so that you leave none open but only a way for them to pass in and out and also though their Hives stand under Covert yet cover them again with Hackles made of straw or some such like thing that as much as is possible they may be kept from cold and winds which they fear and abhor more then any other thing and you shall likewise provide in case of a hard Winter to make provision of Juice of sweet Balm Honied-water Sugered-water Milk or other Liquor which may be convenient for them in which Liquor you must steep pure and clean Wooll whereupon the Bee sitting may suck out the Juice or Liquor that is therein In the Combs are found Drones like unto Bees but greater which although they be unprofitable because they gather no food or sustenance but eat up that which others bring in yet do serve for something for they hatch the young brood whereupon come the small Bees and therefore you must not kill them at all but keep a certain number to the end that the Bees may not grow slothful and idle And to the end that they may not endure hunger in Winter and that they may not eat up the Honey they have made and which is best untaken from them it will be good to give them some dry Figs stampt or tempered in water or boiled Wine and likewise some Raisons stamped and sprinkled with water or else some Curranes stampt with good Wine or else to cast then in at the door of the Hive some sweet Liquors with Siringes as Milk and especially Goats-milk as the best of all the rest to bear out the scarcity and poorness of the time until Spring The diseases of Bees and their remedies THe Bee is subject unto the Plague in which case there is no more Sovereign a Medicine for them then presently to carry them far off they are troubled with the Flux of the Belly in the beginning of the Spring when the Spourges are in the flower and the Elme-trees bring forth their Seed where they are given to feed greedily and with great Stomacks having fasted all Winter and they be so desirous to eat of these new and young Flowers as some folk are to eat of new Apples and thereupon they die quickly if it be not speedily fore-seen For this cause you must quickly help this Flux of the Belly with the Rinds or Seeds of Pomgrannets dried pounded and serced and afterwards mixed with Honey and sprinkled with sweet VVine or with Honied-water wherein hath been boiled Rosemary or with Marselles Figs which have been boiled long in water Bees ore often sick when there is great store of Flowers for the Bees thereupon labour rather to make great store of Honey then any young Bees and so it cometh to pass that many die of excessive toil and travel wherefore when in the Spring time the Meadows and Fields are full of Flowers it will be good every third day to stop up the places whereat they go in and out of their Hives leaving only a few little holes but such as the Bees